Role of Agricultural Marketing Societies in Marketing of Agricultural Produce: A Study of Ujjain District

M. Khan¹ , R. Dhand²

1. Dept. of Commerce, Yash College of Education, Badnawar, India.
2. Dean Student Welfare, Vikram University, Ujjain, India.

Correspondence should be addressed to: moinujn@gmail.com.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.3 , Issue.6 , pp.24-29, Jun-2017

Online published on Jun 30, 2017

Copyright © M. Khan, R. Dhand . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
About 72.37 percent population in Madhya Pradesh is rural, depending mainly on agricultural and other primary activities. Nearly 49.03 percent of the geographical area is under cultivation. The broad objectives of the study were to study the functioning of agricultural marketing societies in Ujjain district and to know the efficiency of these mandis in serving the needs of farmers of all categories. For the study Ujjain district has been randomly selected. Agricultural practices are being done on the third-fourth part of total geographical area. The district consists of seven agriculture mandis and 14 sub-mandies.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Agricultural Marketing Societies, Mandis in ujjain, rabi and kharif crops

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